A fine quality flame mahogany Chippendale style longcase / grandmother clock, with a superior quality Westminster chiming R M Schneckburger of Germany Movement, c.1890.
- Date: 1890
- R. M. Schneckenburger
of Germany, 1882 - 1900.
- Height: 172cm
- Width: 36cm
- Depth: 22cm
- Price: £4,950
Case
A very high quality genuine late Victorian grandmother clock with a superior quality spring driven Westminster quarter chiming movement by R. M. Schneckenburger of Germany, c.1890
The beautifully proportioned small mahogany case of excellent colour and patination.
The Chippendale style flame mahogany case with a carved mahogany swan neck pediment, glazed arched shaped door flanked by finely reeded pilasters above a carved tear drop decorated frieze.
The beautifully figured mahogany triple pointed trunk door, flanked by reeded quarter pilasters above a figured mahogany base raised on ogee bracket feet.
The sides of the case are also veneered in beautifully figured flame mahogany.
The case is made to a very high standard using the very best materials and is in excellent original condition.
Dial
The arched brass dial with gilded
brass spandrels and a finely matted dial centre.
The circular silvered and engraved
Roman numeral chapter ring with gilded half hour markings
and silvered subsidiary zones for the rise and fall
mechanism and chime silent facility.
A very substantial and well executed dial of the highest
quality.
Movement
The fully restored high quality eight day duration triple train spring driven movement, Westminster striking the quarter hours on four curled blued steel gongs and striking the hours on a larger fifth blued steel curled gong.
Rise and fall mechanism for time keeping adjustment and
chime silent facility.
Our horologist is a Fellow of the British Horological Institute (FBHI), having 35 years of full time professional engagement in the repair & restoration of clocks, watches, music boxes & barometers. He was the recipient of the 1977 Worshipful Company of Clockmakers Bronze Medal.
Weights and pendulum
The original brass bob pendulum with brass rod.
Hands
Blued steel hands.
The firm Rup. Amann Fabrik für Federzug- &
Gewicht-Regulateure, of Mülhheim [on the] Donau, in
Württemberg, founded in 1867, was sold in 1882 to
Reinhold Schnekenburger.
It continued as R. Schnekenburger GmbH a.d. Donau --
with the rose with the RSM as a trademark. Then amid
financial problems, what by 1900 had become the
Uhrenfabrik Mühlheim vorm.
R. Schnekenburger was taken over by a creditor, Albert Müller. And on 10 September 1900 and became the "Uhrenfabrik Mühlheim, Müller & Co."
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